Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Japan to allow athletes, coaches in under COVID-19 rules: Kyodo
(Reuters) - Japan will allow professional athletes and coaches, including those with soccer and baseball teams, into the country if they undergo strict anti-coronavirus measures, the Kyodo news agency...
Mar 18, 2021
Goldman Sachs pledges another $500 million in funding for minority-owned businesses
(Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Group Inc said on Thursday it had pledged another $500 million to help grow business owned by Blacks, Latinos and women under Launch with GS, a program it started three years...
Mar 18, 2021
Global airline emissions plan falls short of EU goals, Brussels advised
By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A United Nations scheme for the global airline industry to offset emissions with carbon credits may undercut Europe's climate goals, a newly-surfaced study says. La...
Mar 18, 2021
Marlena’s Bistro remains open, owner faces arrest
HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) – Marlena Pavlos Hackney, owner of Marlena’s Bistro and Pizzeria, 909 Lincoln Ave. in Holland, announced on Fox News’ Tucker Carlson show last night she will...
Mar 18, 2021
Morocco’s bill to legalise cannabis divides growers
By Ahmed Eljechtimi KETAMA, Morocco (Reuters) - In Morocco's impoverished Rif mountains, cannabis grower Mohamed El Mourabit hopes a plan to legalise the drug for some uses will raze what he calls a "...
Mar 18, 2021
It’s curtains for early showers among home workers in Vilnius
By Andrius Sytas VILNIUS (Reuters) - A shower before work? Not any more, say many residents of the Lithuanian capital, who like people around the globe have got used to working from home over the past...
Mar 18, 2021
Air taxi startup Volocopter eyes fresh capital, SPAC an option: CEO
By Nadine Schimroszik and Douglas Busvine BERLIN (Reuters) - German air taxi startup Volocopter plans to raise fresh funds from investors, its Chief Executive Florian Reuter said on Thursday, adding t...
Mar 18, 2021
Lebanon’s Hariri says new cabinet, IMF necessary to halt collapse
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's Prime Minister-designate Saad al-Hariri said on Thursday after a meeting with President Michel Aoun that forming a government that could re-engage with the IMF was the onl...
Mar 18, 2021
Greece concludes second early repayment of IMF loans
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece has made an early repayment of debt worth 3.3 billion euros ($3.93 billion) to the International Monetary Fund, its finance ministry said on Thursday. The move, the second ea...
Mar 18, 2021
Athletics: Olympic hammer throw champion Nazarov gets two-year doping ban
(Reuters) - Olympic hammer throw champion Dilshod Nazarov of Tajikistan has been handed a backdated two-year doping ban, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) said on Thursday, and will be unable to defe...
Mar 18, 2021
